Lungolago Europa
Flower-lined lakefront walkway linking a ferry landing to a shaded park with a children's playground.
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This guide to Lungolago Europa, the lakefront path linking Bellagio's ferry landing to the gardens of Villa Melzi, asks what it means that a playground full of shrieking kids sits inside a park named for the Martyrs of Liberty. It traces the walk past benches and gelato-stained tourists into that shaded park, honoring Italians who died resisting fascism in the 1940s, when this lake was a real front line. The same water later carried film stars like George Clooney to Bellagio, and centuries earlier was patrolled by a magistrate called the Capitano del Lario against pirates and smugglers. Stand at the railing and watch the ferries cross toward Menaggio and Varenna.
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